On predicting religion labels in microblogging networks

SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1211-1214

  Nguyen, Minh Thap ^a   Lim, Ee Peng ^a  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Religion prediction; Social networks; User profiling

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CHRISTIANS; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; HIGH COSTS; LABEL PREDICTIONS; MICROBLOGGING; SVM CLASSIFIERS; USER COMMUNITIES; USER PROFILING;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84904572743     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2600428.2609547     Document Type: Conference Paper

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